Climate change and human mobility global challenges to the social sciences
'The greatest single impact of climate change could be on human migration', stated the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990. Since then there has been considerable concern about the large-scale population movements that might take place because of climate change. This b...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: climate change and human mobility Kirsten Hastrup and Karen Fog Olwig; 2. Leaving home: how can historic human movement inform the future? Carole Crumley; 3. Inuit and climate change in the prehistoric eastern Arctic: a perspective from Greenland Mikkel Sorensen; 4. Dehumanising the uprooted: lessons from Iceland in the Little Ice Age Kirsten Hastrup; 5. Relocation of Reef and Atoll Island communities as an adaptation to climate change? Learning from experience in the Solomon Islands Thomas Birk; 6. Contextualising links between migration and environmental change in northern Ethiopia James Morrissey; 7. On the risks of engineering mobility to reduce vulnerability to climate change: insights from a small island state Jon Barnett; 8. Mobility, climate change and social dynamics in the Arctic: the creation of new horizons of expectation and the role of the community Frank Sejersen; 9. Land grab in Africa: resilience for whom? Quentin Gausset and Michael Whyte; 10. Climate change, migration and Christianity in Oceania Wolfgang Kempf; 11. Climate-induced migration and conflict: what are the links? Christian Webersik